About Amy Harvey

Amy Harvey is the Principal Software Engineer with IDD, Inc., a full-service IT firm in Blacksburg, Virginia. She has been working in the IT industry since 1996 and specializes in educational applications and interactive kiosk systems. Her biggest pet peeve is software that isn’t user-friendly, and so she strives to develop systems that are easy to understand and use. Follow IDD on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

User Experience – dubbed UX for short – is a hot topic. In the broadest sense, it can be defined as the overall experience you have when you are using or interacting with something – and that 'something' could literally be almost anything in the world! For many people, user experience comes to mind in the context of 'technical' devices like smart phones, computers, software, … [Read more...]